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We are pleased to announce that this year's FRICO will take place at
Institute of Mathematical Optimization, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität
Magdeburg, Germany.

FRICO 2014 is the 18th workshop in a sequence of successful meetings
that bring together young researchers in order to establish new contacts
and exchange ideas in the field of combinatorial optimization.

FRICO is intended to be a workshop in the original meaning of the word.
In particular, we encourage the submission and presentation of on-going
and future research (even work containing gaps and unsolved problems).
Besides plenty of time between sessions, there will be a social program
that allows participants to exchange ideas and have fruitful discussions.

Participation is free of charge. Registration due date: May 31, 2014

As in the tradition of previous FRICOs, a best-talk prize will be
awarded. Furthermore, we also plan to invite partners from the industry
to highlight the application of combinatorial optimization in practice.

Julia Lange
Matthias Walter
Stefan Weltge
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17.06.2012 (June 17, 2014) - Camera-ready version of the accepted
paper and registration

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Submission and Publication

* Authors should submit draft papers as PDF.
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages (IEEE style).
IEEE style templates are available at http://www.fedcsis.org/.
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
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Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore database (pending) and
indexed in the DBLP.
* Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference
will be published as Special Issue(s), we will announce later the
publisher.
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On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we invite you to participate in
the special session (workshop) on "METAHEURISTICS FOR OPTIMIZATION
PROBLEMS" at the
8th Conference on Numerical Methods and Applications NM&A'14,
to be held 20-24 August 2014 in Borovets, Bulgaria.
The session is organized by:
Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova (stefka@parallel.bas.bg)
from the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and
Gabriel Luque (gabriel@lcc.uma.es) from University of Malaga, Spain.

Proceedings
The refereed and presented papers will be published as a special
volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Important deadlines
Deadline for submission of abstracts
April 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance of the talks on the basis of the
submitted abstract
April 30, 2014
Deadline for submission of full papers
May 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance of full papers
June 30, 2014
Submission of accommodation forms
July 15, 2014

Abstracts and contributed papers
The abstracts (up to 1 page stating clearly the originality of the
results) are to be written in standard LaTeX. The length of the
contributed papers is limited up to 8 pages. It is assumed that one
participant will present not more than one talk.

Send the abstracts and papers to special session organizers and
conference organizers, indicating the name of the special session.
After sending the abstract go to the conference web page and fill in
the registration form (personal data of the participants, minimum one
per paper, and the name of the special session).

Information about abstract and paper preparation, accommodation,
transportation, registration form and conference location you can find
at the conference web page http://parallel.bas.bg/dpa/NMA_2014/

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The IPCO conference is a forum for researchers and practitioners working on various aspects of integer programming and combinatorial optimization. The aim is to present recent developments in theory, computation, and applications. The scope of IPCO is viewed in a broad sense, to include algorithmic and structural results in integer programming and combinatorial optimization as well as revealing computational studies and novel applications of discrete optimization to practical problems.

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Summer School:
The following distinguished lecturers will give two 90-minute lectures each (see the website for abstracts):

34 papers, selected by the program committee (chaired by Jon Lee), will be presented in single-track sessions.
The detailed program is online now.
Each participant will receive a copy of the proceedings (Springer LNCS) at the conference.

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Poster session:

We plan a poster session at the welcome reception on June 22.
If you want to present a poster, submit title and abstract before March 31.
Acceptance notifications will be sent a few days later.

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We invite members of the Latin-Iberian-American Association of
Operations Research (ALIO) and the worldwide Operational
Research (OR) community to take part in the
XVII Latin-Iberian-American Conference on Operations Research
held jointly with the III Conference of the Mexican Society of
Operations Research (CLAIO/CSMIO 2014) in Monterrey, Mexico,
October 6-10, 2014. The academic program will consist of parallel,
technical, plenary talks, tutorials, and short courses,
covering several aspects of OR.

ABSTRACT / PAPER SUBMISSION

To participate, an abstract of 1000 characters must be submitted. Additionally,
an 8-page paper going through a review process may be submitted.

Papers and abstracts may be written in Spanish, English, or
Portuguese, the three official languages of CLAIO. Accepted papers
of registered authors will be published in the conference proceedings
CD-ROM with an ISBN. All accepted abstracts will be published in
the conference book of abstracts.

A post-conference special issue of "Annals of Operations Research"
devoted to the best works of the conference will be published.
See details in the conference web site.

Nowadays, optimization problems become increasingly large and complex,
forcing the use of parallel computing for their efficient and
effective resolution. On the other hand, multi and many-core computing
(e.g. GPU, FPGA) has recently undergone a significant evolution with
the emergence of new high performance computing environments. Indeed,
multi and many-core computing are provided in laptops, high
performance workstations, clusters, grids, and clouds.

The design and implementation of parallel optimization methods raise
several issues related to the characteristics of these methods and
those of the new hardware execution environments at the same time.
This workshop seeks to provide an opportunity for the researchers to
present their original contributions on the joint use of advanced
(discrete or continuous, single or multi-objective, static or dynamic,
deterministic or stochastic, hybrid) optimization methods and
distributed and/or parallel multi/many-core computing, and any related
issues.

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You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on
above and other topics related to Parallel Computing for Simulation
and Optimization. Submitted papers must not have been published or
simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover
page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone
numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the
corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list
of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full
manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format.
Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Short papers (up to 4
pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to
http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/home/posters for the posters submission
details) will also be accepted for submission. In case of multiple
authors, an indication of which author is responsible for
correspondence must be indicated. Please include page numbers on all
submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful
comments.

Only PDF files will be accepted. Each paper will receive a minimum of
three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality,
relevance, contributions, technical clarity and presentation.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of accepted
papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and
presented at the workshop.

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Proceedings
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Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be
posted on the HPCS 2014 web site. It is our intent to have the
proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be
available at the time of the conference. The proceedings are to be
published as ISBN proceedings by the IEEE and will be available online
through IEEE Digital Library and indexed by major indexing services
accordingly (e.g., EI indexing).

If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop,
please feel free to contact the workshop organizers.

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The Engineering Systems and Design (ESD) Pillar of the Singapore
University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is looking for bright and
motivated students who want to pursue a PhD in one or more of its
areas of interest. Multiple positions are available for September
2014.

SUTD is a research-intensive university, recently established in
collaboration with MIT. Thomas Magnanti, former Dean of Engineering at
MIT and former President of INFORMS, is the President of SUTD. Saif
Benjaafar, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and former
Director of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of
Minnesota, is the Head of the ESD Pillar.

ESD is a multidisciplinary department with faculty from the best
universities in the world, including MIT, Stanford, Cambridge, UC
Berkeley, Caltech, and Cornell. The faculty are engaged in numerous
research projects in optimization, operations management, game theory,
applied probability, transportation, energy, environment, and more.

Qualified PhD applicants who are selected for a scholarship are
offered highly attractive financial packages covering tuition, a
monthly stipend and support for conference and workshop travel.

Additional information about SUTD and the ESD Pillar may be found at
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SSS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the
design and development of distributed systems with self-* properties such as
self- stabilizing, self-configuring, self-organizing, self-managing,
self-repairing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-adaptive, and
self-protecting. Research in distributed systems is now at a crucial point
in its evolution, marked by the importance of dynamic systems such as
peer-to-peer networks, large-scale wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc
networks, robotic networks, opportunistic networks etc. Moreover, new
applications such as grid and web services, banking and e-commerce, e-health
and robotics, aerospace and avionics, automotive, industrial process
control, etc. have joined the traditional applications of distributed
systems. We particularly encourage the submissions spanning these areas of
applications.

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can be submitted: Regular Papers and Brief Announcements. Submissions for
regular papers should be no longer than 15 pages (including the title,
authors, abstract, figures, and references) in LNCS style; a submission may
have an appendix of at most two pages beyond the 15 page limit. Brief
announcements are restricted to two pages using the LNCS style, with no
appendix. Submissions deviating from these guidelines will be rejected
without consideration of their merits. If requested by the authors, a
regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation will also
be considered for a brief announcement. This request must be clearly
indicated in the first page of the paper. Such a request will not affect
consideration of the paper for a regular paper. A paper submitted at this
forum is expected to be original research not previously published. A
submission may not be concurrently submitted to another conference,
workshop, or journal.

PUBLICATION
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer Verlag
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.Selected papers will be
published in the Journal of Self-Computing
(http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/jsc).

BEST PAPER AND BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARDS
The program committee will select two papers for best paper and best
student paper awards. A paper is eligible for the best student paper award
if at least one of its authors is a full-time student at the time of
submission. This must be clearly indicated in the first page of the paper.

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Manuscripts are invited for a Special Issue on Parameterized Complexity published by the "Tsinghua Science and Technology". The field of parameterized complexity is a vibrant research area and has witnessed a tremendous growth in the last two decades. It has become a central area in theoretical computer science, with applications to bioinformatics, artificial intelligence and many other areas.

The Special Issue invites regular and survey papers pertaining to parameterized complexity, for example, Design and analysis of parameterized and kernelization algorithms, Complexity and lower bounds, Connections between parameterized complexity and approximation. Other topics in parameterized complexity are also welcome.

The Special Issue will have a dedication to Professor Janier Chen, Texas A&M University and Central South University of China, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, in recognition of his valuable contributions to the field of parameterized complexity.

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RESEARCH DESCRIPTION
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The research will be conducted at the Technical University of Madrid,
within the Internet Next Generation Research Group at E.T.S. Sistemas
Informaticos and funded by the ONTIC European Project (FP7).

Accurate identification and categorization of network traffic according
to application type is an important element of many network management
and engineering tasks related with QoS, capacity planning and detection
of network attacks.

Terabytes of data may be transferred through the core network of a
typical ISP every day. Moreover, it is expected an exponential growth of
more than 50 billions of connected devices to Internet. Therefore, this
scenario hampers network data capture and analysis.

ONTIC (Online Network TraffIc Characterization) project investigates:

1)
A novel architecture of scalable mechanisms and techniques to be
able to a) characterize online network traffic data streams, identifying
traffic patterns evolution, and b) proactively detecting anomalies in
real time when hundreds of thousands of packets per second are
processed.

2)
A completely new set of scalable offline data mining mechanisms and
techniques to characterize network traffic, applying a Big Data
analytics approach and using distributed computation paradigms in the
cloud on extremely large network traffic summary datasets consisting on
trillions of records.

Under the context of the project, the proposed Ph.D. project aims at
investigating and proposing a new set of online and offline algorithms
and machine learning techniques to build autonomous network traffic
characterization systems while tackling scalability and real time
network traffic issues in a Big Data analytics scenario.

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LOCATION AND SALARY
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A Ph.D. studentship for 3 years is available. The monthly gross salary
is approximately 1900 Euro. The successful candidate will join the
Internet Next Generation Research Group in the E.T.S.I. Sistemas
Informaticos at Technical University of Madrid, Spain.

Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
UPM) is the oldest and largest Spanish technical university, with more
than 4.000 faculty members, around 38.000 undergraduate students and
6.000 postgraduates. UPM benefits from the heritage of its schools: the
most ancient ones were founded in the 18th.century. Nowadays UPM's
Schools cover most of engineering disciplines, as well as Architecture,
Computer Science and Geodesy & Cartography. Moreover, UPM as a top
quality academic establishment has a strong commitment to R&D and
Innovation, boasting over 225 Research Units and over 10 Research
Institutes and Technological Centres, contributing significantly to the
international scientific community with a high number of journal papers,
conference communications, and PhD theses. The UPM researchers have
large expertise in research projects participation both at national and
international level.

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics,
Computing and Technology, The Open University
FULL-TIME PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS
AVAILABLE FROM 1 OCTOBER 2014

*** Closing date: 28th February 2014 ***

We invite applications for several full-time three-year PhD
studentships in Mathematics and Statistics commencing 1 October 2014.
Studentships cover full-time fees and include a stipend (currently
£13,726 per annum).

Full-time PhD students are based at the University's Walton Hall
campus in Milton Keynes and are allocated office space and computer
facilities in the Department. Full-time students have an automatic
travel and subsistence allocation (currently £1250 per annum for three
years) to cover training and conference participation. Students are
also supported to join an appropriate learned society.

Applications in all research areas covered by the Department are
welcomed. A detailed research proposal is not required, but applicants
should make clear their principal area of interest. Applications for
research projects highlighted inhttp://www.mathematics.open.ac.uk/phdare especially welcomed. Interested persons are strongly encouraged to
make informal enquiries to mcs-mathematics-enquiries@open.ac.uk.

Overseas applicants are welcomed but those from a non-European
Economic Area country that is not majority English-speaking must hold
a Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
certificate for English at B2 level or higher.

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SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
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nnThe development of smart vehicles and more sustainable transportation systems has emerged as one of the most fundamental societal challenges of the next decade. At the same time, automotive manufacturers are striving to make vehicles safer and more environmentally friendly to fulfil consumers' expectations and new regulations. To revolutionise our mobile lifestyle towards a more sustainable and connected future it is of paramount importance to develop innovative cooperative systems enabling road users and other actors to exchange information in real time and in an autonomous manner, pervasive sensing to monitor the status of vehicles and the surroundings, big data analytics for the processing of sheer amount of data coming from the transportation infrastructure, middleware platforms for information management and sharing, and appropriate interaction interfaces between drivers and vehicles. Clearly, the seamless integration between mobile devices, vehicular communication ne!
tworks, and information and transportation systems will face a number of technical, economical and regulatory challenges.

Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting recent developments, current research challenges and future directions in the use of networking, communications, data management, and applications to realise vehicular mobility systems that are more connected, sustainable and safe.

Topics of interest for SmartVehicles 2014 include, but are not limited to:

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Submission will be managed electronically through EDAS (http://edas.info/N16795).

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Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (IEEEXplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present his/her work at the workshop in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings.

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The school runs for a full week Monday-Friday at the beginning of July
when Sweden is at its loveliest, with arrival on Sunday evening and
departure Saturday morning. It consists of two mini-courses on "Sums of
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The First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and
Deployment
for Real-time and Healthcare Applications (RA-WERHA 2014)
(http://csserver.ucd.ie/~sdjahel/RA-WERHA2014/main.html)
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To be held in conjunction with The 39th IEEE Conference on Local
Computer Networks (LCN),
Sep. 8-11, 2014, Edmonton, Canada
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SCOPE

The recent advances in wireless sensing technology have led to the
emergence of a wide
range of applications in different domains such as medical, sports,
consumer electronics,
social networking, and enterprise usage. E-health is recognized as the
most important and
promising among these applications for its potential for health
monitoring of chronic
illnesses, lifesaving in emergency situations, and its ability to
provide round the clock
healthcare to rural and disadvantaged areas. Wireless Body Area Networks
(WBANs) are the
key enabler of remote and in-hospital health monitoring and are expected
to revolutionize
the health and real-time body monitoring industry.

WBAN technology has quickly attracted a lot of attention from
researchers, practitioners
and clinicians as well as mobile health related data managers. The main
objective of WBAN
is to provide cost-effective, flexible, and secure use of biotelemetry
information and
communication technologies to support both medical and non-medical
applications. This
technology enables ambient assisted living by providing more freedom to
the elderly,
disabled, and chronic illness sufferers. Moreover, it can be rapidly
deployed in emergency
and disaster situations facilitating faster and more accurate remote
diagnosis of victims.
WBAN technology unleashes the possibilities and potentials for
personalized medicine which
promises to revolutionize healthcare that will have a significant
societal and economic
impact and improve the citizens' quality of life, particularly in future
smart cities.
However, WBAN applications present several challenges for the research
community including:
passive non-intrusive and power utilisation design issues, security and
reliability with
regards to the integrity of the acquired biotelemetry data and the
real-time transmission
of the monitored data using QoS aware techniques. Moreover, new emerging
applications,
which consider critical flows, are gaining more and more popularity in
various activity domains.

This workshop seeks to bring together leading academic and industrial
researchers,
practitioners, and clinicians to identify and discuss the major
technical challenges
and recent results related to WBANs based medical and non-medical
applications.
All are welcome to present and share their latest research findings,
ideas, simulation
tools and prototype test-beds at the 2014 RA-WERHA workshop.

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS
ICIEIS2014
The Third International Conference on Informatics
Engineering and Information Science
September 22-24, 2014, Lodz, Poland
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/icieis2014/==============================================================
The proposed conference will be held at Lodz University of Technology,
Lodz, Poland from September 22-24, 2014 which aims to enable researchers
build connections between different digital applications.

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July 23-25, Takayama Green Hotel, Takayama, Japan
http://sites.google.com/site/sirocco2014japan/----------------------------------------------------------------------
= Theme =
SIROCCO is devoted to the study of the interplay between communication
and knowledge in multi-processor systems from both the qualitative and
quantitative viewpoints. Special emphasis is given to innovative
approaches and fundamental understanding, in addition to efforts
to optimize current designs. Conference. SIROCCO has a tradition of
interesting and productive scientific meetings in a relaxed and pleasant
atmosphere, attracting leading researchers in a variety of fields
in which communication and knowledge play a significant role. This time,
SIROCCO is held at Takayama, a small town located at the central
region of Japan with exotic scenery. Scope. Original papers are
solicited from all areas of study of local structural knowledge and
global communication and computational complexities. Among the typical
areas are distributed computing, communication networks, game theory,
parallel computing, social networks, mobile computing (including
autonomous robots), peer to peer systems, and communication
complexity. Keeping with the tradition of SIROCCO, new areas are
always welcome.

= SIROCCO Award =
The Prize for Innovation In Distributed Computing is awarded
annually in the SIROCCO conference to recognize individuals whose
research contributions had a major impact on the understanding of
the relationships between information and efficiency in decentralized
computing. The contribution (or a related contribution) should have
been either made or demonstrated by the author in a paper that
appeared in SIROCCO in the past. Moreover, the author should have
made the contribution in at least one paper that appeared (in either
a scientific journal or the proceedings of a scientific conference)
at least 5 years ago.

= Best Student Paper =
A paper is eligible for the Best Student Paper Award if one or more
authors are full-time students at the time of submission. The program
committee may decline to make this awards or split it.

= Submission =
Papers are submitted using Easy Chair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sirocco2014; see
submission guidelines on the conference website. The submission
deadline is 25 April 2014 (23:59 PST). Notifications will be sent out
by 25 May, and the camera-ready papers are due on 9 June.

= Publication =
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a part of the
LNCS series. Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of the
journal Theoretical Computer Science.

= Micro-MAC =
In conjunction with the conference, a compact version of Research
meeting on Distributed Computing by Mobile Robots (MAC) will be
held on 26 July.

The workshop, Trends in On-Line Algorithms 2014 (TOLA 2014),
will take place on July 7, 2014, between SWAT 2014 and ICALP 2014,
both of which will be held in Copenhagen. The purpose of this
workshop is to bring together researchers interested in all aspects
of online algorithms, including classical competitive analysis,
alternative performance measures, and advice complexity.

Anyone can register for participation, but in order to be
scheduled to give a talk, submission of an abstract is required.
The workshop will be informal, with no published proceedings.
If you are interested in speaking, please submit a two-page
abstract, excluding references, through the EasyChair system,
using the following URL:
www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tola2014A submission should consist of a two-page abstract, not counting
the bibliography, in PDF format.

Scholarships in MSc Operational Research and MSc Business Analysis and Consulting

University of Strathclyde Business School
Department of Management Science

We have scholarships available for our full-time MSc Operational Research and MSc Business Analysis and Consulting courses in the academic year 2014/15. Each scholarship will be worth £7,000. Students with any nationality are eligible to apply. We will award two scholarships.

The applicants are strictly required to have a First Class Honours (undergraduate) degree, or equivalent (that is, a minimum 3.5 GPA in a 4.0 GPA system, or a minimum 90% average, or a minimum average of A- in a letter system).

Applicants for MSc Operational Research should have their degree in a numerical subject, including but not limited to Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering and Economics. Applicants for MSc Business Analysis and Consulting could have their degree from a broader selection of subjects, including but not limited to business, economics, engineering or the social sciences.

All applicants should follow the online MSc application procedure of the department (please see the links below). After submitting their online application, the applicants are required to send an email to kerem.akartunali@strath.ac.uk with a title "Strathclyde Man Sci MSc Scholarships - Applicant #", where "#" should be replaced by the online application number of the applicant (provided by Pegasus online system).

Applications not satisfying eligibility requirements or not following the above guidelines will be disregarded.

To start your online application, please follow the links through "Apply Now" and make sure to select the "Full Time" application starting in September 2014.

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FIRST ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON METAHEURISTIC DESIGN PATTERNS (MetaDeeP-2014) to be held as part of the 2014 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2014) Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 12-16, 2014 Organized by ACM SIGEVO http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2014/

You've (presumably) received this email because you're interested in EC and/or metaheuristics in general:

* Do you have an idea about how metaheuristics could be better hybridized or generated?* Have you observed some commonality (e.g. across frameworks or methodologies) that is not yet widely recognized?* Are you frustrated when researchers don't follow best practices that are well-understood in your field?

If so, then you should attend MetaDeeP 2014 – the first Workshop on Metaheuristic Design Patterns.

Over the last 20 years, Evolutionary Computation (and meta- and hyper- heuristics in general) has flourished, spawning an enormous variety of algorithms, operators and representations.The history of science and mathematics demonstrates that such proliferation is inevitable in a growing field, but that in order to progress non-incrementally it is periodically necessary to obtain a unifying perspective.

Existing EC/metaheuristic frameworks provide a certain level of abstraction, but these are not generally sufficient to capture higher-level or cross-cutting concerns such as the automatic design of metaheuristics "in the large" (c.f. Dijkstra on software componentization).

The "Design Patterns" revolution in 1994 was successful in addressing analogous issues in the software industry. The default level of discourse among practitioners was consequently significantly increased, and today "factory method" or "chain of responsibility" are software engineers' lingua franca, immensely facilitating communication and design of software systems.

The workshop organizers strongly believe that the EC/metaheuristics community needs and deserves a corresponding breakthrough. The domain of metaheuristics has good mathematical and conceptual foundations, so nothing precludes the creation of a coherent and useful set of concepts to help move metaheuristics up an abstraction level. For instance, hyper-heuristics can be considered as the well-known composite pattern as applied to metaheuristics. Framing recurring methodological and algorithmic themes in terms of such Metaheuristic Design Patterns (MDP) has been advocated in a recent lecture [1] and several papers [2,3]; similar desires have also been expressed elsewhere [4].

This workshop provides a forum for those interested in contributing to the MDP vision and/or willing to demonstrate its usefulness in practical and theoretical studies.

----------------------------------------------------------Topics and Themes----------------------------------------------------------

The workshop welcomes original submissions on all applications of design patterns to metaheuristics, which include (but are not limited to) the following topics and themes:

- Applications of existing design patterns (e.g. from [5]) to metaheuristics. Some examples are given in [1,4] and on the Workshop website.- New metaheuristic design patterns: algorithms and methodologies that might be expected to be widely applicable but which have not yet been documented at the appropriate level of abstraction.- Automation of metaheuristic design via patterns. There is a wealth of pattern literature in the (Search-Based) Software Engineering community related to software automation. Much of this is directly applicable to metaheuristic design.- Pattern languages for metaheuristics. See [4] for the definitive example.

Submitted papers should follow the ACM format, and should be between 2 and 4 pages in length.Please see "GECCO 2014 information for authors" for further details.However, note that the review process of the workshop is not double-blind and hence, authors' information should appear in the paper.

All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and appear in the GECCO workshop volume.Proceedings of the workshop will be published on CD-ROM, and distributed at the conference.

Chris Simons - University of the West of England, United Kingdom.chris.simons -at- uwe.ac.uk

John Woodward - University of Stirling, United Kingdom.jrw –at- cs.stir.ac.uk

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A cross-faculty PhD studentship is available at University of Strathclyde (Departments of Mathematics & Statistics and Management Science), funded through the Capita/University of Strathclyde Strategic Partnership.

ELIGIBILITY
Sufficient funding is available to cover 3 years of tuition fees for a UK/EU student only, plus a standard stipend. This PhD project requires a highly numerate graduate with skills and interests in computational science.

TOPICS AND AIM OF THE PROJECT
There is a compelling case for training graduates in the mathematical sciences to play a leading role in data-rich applications. Going beyond the fundamental issues of storing, sharing, curating and securing data, mathematicians and operational researchers develop models and algorithms that deliver actionable insights.

This project will drive a new collaboration across the Strathclyde Business School and the Faculty of Science, by combining mathematical ideas from three very active, hot-topic areas
. Network Science: studying not only the individual elements in a system, but also the complex, emergent behaviour that arises when these elements combine,
. Optimization: developing computational strategies for discovering optimal solutions to quantifiable problems, notably on very large data sets, where High Performance Computing is necessary,
. Data Fusion: where heterogeneous sources of data are combined in order to add value, with the relative "influence" and "distinctness" of each data set simultaneously quantified.

The project will be application-driven, with close involvement of Strathclyde's new Institute for Future Cities (http://www.strath.ac.uk/business/cities/). The Institute is designed to work in partnership - integrating and catalysing expertise and research from multiple disciplines within Strathclyde and other academic, government and commercial organisations.

The project will meet the Institute's aim to tackle the large, complex and difficult issues and opportunities for cities. In order to maximise impact, the precise details will be fleshed out in collaboration with the key data generators and users; notably Glasgow City Council, who administer the £24 Million TSB-funded Smart City Demonstrator award, which is at the heart of the City Observatory, to be housed in Strathclyde's Technology and Innovation Centre. The essence of this project is to develop new, customized Big Data and High Performance Computing algorithms that can be stress-tested and validated on data from the Observatory. A typical case study for the algorithms would be in combining data sources from the observatory sensors to monitor and predict energy levels across the city, including the new Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems, with a view to allowing energy storage when demand is low for use during times of higher activity. This has the potential to cut people's fuel bills, help the city in its fight against fuel poverty and give Glaswegians access to affordable warmth.

HOW TO APPLY
All applications are to be made online at http://pgr.strath.ac.uk/. All documents (including scans of original documents) can be uploaded during the online application process. Candidates are expected to submit a cover letter, a research proposal detailing their 3-year plan, CV, any university degree certificates and transcripts, English test results (if applicable), two recommendation letters (or contact details of two referees, if letters are not available to them), and any other supporting documents. In order to be considered for this studentship, candidates should specifically note the title of this project in their online application when prompted about funding and their source of finance.

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*Topics*
The AFL series, initiated by the late Professor Istv\'an
Pe\'ak in 1980, has a long tradition. The AFL conferences
cover all aspects of automata and formal languages,
including theory and applications.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
grammars, acceptors and transducers for strings, trees,
graphs, arrays, etc., algebraic theories for automata and
languages, combinatorial properties of words and languages,
formal power series, decision problems, efficient algorithms
for automata and languages, relations to complexity theory
and logic, picture description and analysis, quantum
computing, cryptography, concurrency, applications of
automata and language theory in biology, natural language
processing, and other fields.

The scientific program will consist of invited lectures
and contributed presentations selected by the international
program committee.

*Submission guidelines*
Submissions to AFL2014 must not exceed 15 pages
(in EPTCS style and including bibliography).
If the authors believe that more details are
essential to substantiate the main claims, they may
include a clearly marked appendix that will be read
at the discretion of the program committee.

Simultaneous submissions of papers to any other
conference with published proceedings or submitting
previously published papers is not allowed.
Only electronic submissions in PDF format are accepted.
Information about the submission procedure is
available on the conference web page.
The proceedings will be published in the EPTCS series.

A special issue of the
*International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science*
containing expanded versions of selected papers will
be published after the conference.

The conference is organized by the Department of Foundations
of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Informatics,
University of Szeged, Hungary.

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